27. The Robin Chapman Adams
28. Burial at Sea Billings Richardson
29. The Dream of Youth Billings Hartwell
30. The Old Oak Billings Brown
31. To a Wild Violet in March Croome Anderson
32. The Rose Cheney Fairchild
33. The Maniac Billings Brown
34. The Two Shades Billings Marsh
35. The Outcast Billings Hartwell
36. "My Native Hills," &c. Billings Andrews
37. The Moonlit Prairie Billings Andrews
38. The Farewell Billings Andrews
39. The Expulsion from Eden Billings Marsh
40. Vignette Croome Anderson

Henry J. Crate, Pressman.

[Illustration: Vignette]

CONTENTS.

Birth-night of the Humming Birds
Lake Superior
The Leaf
The Bubble Chase
A Dream of Life
The Surf Sprite
The First Frost of Autumn
The Sea Bird
The King of Terrors
The Rainbow Bridge
The Rival Bubbles
Good Night
The Mississippi
The Two Windmills
The Ideal and the Actual
The Golden Dream
The Gipsy's Prayer
Inscription for a Rural Cemetery
Song: the Robin
Thoughts at Sea
A Burial at Sea
The Dream of Youth
Remembrance
The Old Oak
To a Wild Violet in March
Illusions
The Rose: to Ellen
The Maniac
The Two Shades
The Teacher's Lesson
Perennials
To a Lady who had been Singing
The Broken Heart
The Star of the West
The Outcast
Good and Evil
The Mountain Stream

Birth-night of the Humming Birds.

[Illustration: The Departure of the Fairies]

I.

I'll tell you a Fairy Tale that's new:
How the merry Elves o'er the ocean flew
From the Emerald isle to this far-off shore,
As they were wont in the days of yore;
And played their pranks one moonlit night,
Where the zephyrs alone could see the sight.

II.

Ere the Old world yet had found the New,
The fairies oft in their frolics flew
To the fragrant isles of the Caribbee--
Bright bosom-gems of a golden sea.
Too dark was the film of the Indian's eye,
These gossamer sprites to suspect or spy,--
So they danced 'mid the spicy groves unseen,
And mad were their merry pranks, I ween;
For the fairies, like other discreet little elves,
Are freest and fondest when all by themselves.
No thought had they that in after time,
The Muse would echo their deeds in rhyme;
So gayly doffing light stocking and shoe,
They tripped o'er the meadow all dappled in dew.

III.

I could tell, if I would, some right merry tales,
Of unslippered fairies that danced in the v